Quotes About Body

I must—I must—I must increase my bust.

She said, "I must—I must—I must increase my bust." She said it over and over. We copied her movements and chanted with her. "We must—we must—we must increase our bust!

He's really fat.

Breasts and bosoms I have known Of varied shapes and sizes From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprises.

That impulse took hold of me so powerfully, from my whole body, not by thought, that I caught myself from doing it exactly and as scarcely as you snatch yourself from jumping from a sheer height: here, with the realization that it would have frightened them still worse (to say nothing of me) and would have been still less explicable; so that I stood and looked into their eyes and loved them, and wished to God I was dead.

There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul.

Hay tres motivos por los cuales vivimos: vivimos para el cuerpo, vivimos para la mente, y vivimos para el alma. 

He is like a manIn the body of a violent beast.Its muscles are his own…The lion sleeps in the sun.Its nose is on its paws.It can kill a man.

She sang beyond the genius of the sea.The water never formed to mind or voice,Like a body wholly body, flutteringIts empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motionMade constant cry, caused constantly a cry,That was not ours although we understood,Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.

Beauty is momentary in the mind—The fitful tracing of a portal;But in the flesh it is immortal.The body dies; the body's beauty lives.

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

A] being is nothing but a combination of physical and mental forces or energies. What we call death is the total non-functioning of the physical body. Do all these forces and energies stop altogether with the non-functioning of the body?

What we call life [...] is [...] a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die.

As Adam early in the morning,Walking forth from the bower refresh'd with sleep,Behold me where I pass, hear my voice, approach,Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,Be not afraid of my body.

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul.

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.

To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ. As human persons, body and soul, are incorporated into the performance of Christ's corpus verum, they resist the state's ability to define what is real through the mechanism of torture.22

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body.

It is in the body that we exist and work out our salvation. It is in the body that we see and take delight in the beauties of God's created universe, and in the body that we ourselves bear the marks of Christ's passion.

until the body fails us, or pains us, or forces itself upon our attention by some little twinge or complete collapse, we tend to take for granted this first and most precious of God's gifts to man or to give it short shrift.

Die Hitze entschlackt den Körper. Wenn du eine Weile in die Lava gestarrt hast, verwandelt sich dein gehirn in eine breiige Masse. Und du denkst an gar nichts mehr. Das empfinden wir als Erholung von unseren geistigen Aktivitäten.

Es ist uns ein bißchen peinlich", sagte Golgo, "daß etwas so Hochgeistiges wie Lesen bei uns mit etwas so Profanen wie Verdauung einhergeht. Aber so ist das nun mal. Wir ernähren uns vom Leben!

A prototype is a question, embodied."60 Given a body, the question becomes harder to ignore. Nanda's question—What if a clock had wheels?—became much more compelling to people when they actually saw a clock with wheels.